strawberrycough grow journal

my first time growing indoors...i have two 200wt HPS lights and i have already germinated the seeds and then planted them in miracle grow soil with some perlite.they are already growing so fast i has been 4 days now for the bigger one and 3 days for the smaller one...here are some pics.let me know if there is anything u think i can be doing bettr for them...btw i have the timer on 18/6 is this right. oh an the first one is the 4day old and the other two pics are of the 3 day old

alright no comments,thats cool i thought i would post some more pics to show how they have grown and if u think my plants look like anything is wrong with them then please reply..
1st-5day old cough
2nd-4day old cough
3rd-both under hps lights
4th-nother pic of 4day old
5th-nother pic of 5day old

good luck!

i personally think (and I'm a total newb' by the way) that a total of 400 watts HPS is a little excessive for two plants; especially in terms of heat build-up in the grow space (unless you've got a good ventilation system for it).

How close/far are the lights by the way?

They look as if they are stretchin a bit for light, 400watts of hps is plenty of light, but is it the right kind of light? Metal Halide lights seem to do the trick duing the veg cycle, may want to give one of them a try? Good Luck mate!

to sandmonkey

yeah it does seem like alot to me to but it hasent gotten to hot really..and yea the lights are about 13' away from the tops of the plants..my friend is the one who got me the lights and he said they were 200w but i dont know if hes right..ill take a pic of the lights..but when i put my hand under the lights,its not hot or discomforting at all .

to whiteboysmurf

yeah the lights seem to be doin a good job..i mean at first i thought it looked like the plants were strechin but there only 5 days old..how big are plants usually at this point

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cant wait to see this cough grow, I'll be doing it for my second grow coming in Feb (have some AK-47s right now)

good luck, happy growing

hope micracle grow soil is not fertilized. I had lots of issues in the beginning and during veg. I will never use it again. just my personal peference. good luck

ysaelee9 said:

hope micracle grow soil is not fertilized. I had lots of issues in the beginning and during veg. I will never use it again. just my personal peference. good luck

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yeah i dont think its fertilized at least it doesent say it and yeah and every body has a preference.

I dont know if your using a fan on your plants but if you arent then you might want to consider it to help their stalks grow thicker. Good luck!

white boy smurf said:

I dont know if your using a fan on your plants but if you arent then you might want to consider it to help their stalks grow thicker. Good luck!

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yeah i dont have one at the moment because im to lazy to go get it from my boys house but i know i need one asap..i have a bigger one but i dont want to use that one..the one my boy has is just a little small circular fan which is perfect for my grow area.

here is more pics of my homemade grow area..and yes i know i will have to raise the lights an do other things so dont freak out to much just give some constructive critizisam.all is preciated

1.grow area
2.cough #1 6days old since planted
3.cough #2 5days old since planted
4.together
5.hps lights

ok after today im gona start postin pics every two days so u can see new growth..i finally got some clearer pics..check em out

1.both coughs
2.7 day cough
3.6 day cough
4.6 day cough
5.7 day cough

nice babies my friend, definitely keepin an eye on this one

looking good, nice little set up

I'd remove the glass/plastic lamp on your HPS, you're loosing lumens that way

Also, go get you some 65k (daylight) CFLs.. not 'soft white.' I really didn't think it was a big deal at all in my grow... but I was growing forever and nplants werent making much progress, once I got the daylight CFLs, BOOM. Growth explosion!! Check it out around here on my journal. Once I got those CFLs with more blue light in them, the plants loved, it I noticed a difference that very same day...

you'll be doing yourself a favor, I'd hate for that sweet sweet cough to grow slowww...

yeah man so take the plastic off,got it. and where should i go for the cfls,walmart or lowes or somthin like that..an i have noticed that there growin a little slow

preciate it

Yeah. Walmart, lowes, etc. They'll say 'daylight' or 65k or both... At walmart they're in blue packages.

Don't get "soft white" these work more for floweri g. Not that you need them then... Your HPSs are great for that.

The daylights put out more blue light like the MH.. Which the plants love for veg, it's like the spring sun. The soft white and HPS are more orange which is like the fall sun

yeah i got u..how many cfls do u think i need on them..and should i just take the hps out for right now and use the cfls for the veg..befor i started growin i was reading a lot of thing on this website..and people were talkin about using cfls for veg..but would it really take a long time if i just stuck with the hps..?

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you can keep the HPS going and just add some CFLs... I'd say about 2 or 3 per plant (23 'true' watt or so). Thats what I did... I kept the HPS for all the lumens it put out, then added the CFLs for the blue light

alright cool but do i got to get like 3 seperate light sockets for the bulbs or how would i do that.like get all the lights around it.